USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ships forcibly transported enslaved Africans to the Americas – the third point of the triangle. Upon a slaving ship’s arrival in the Americas, the enslaved Africans were landed and exchanged for goods such as sugar, tobacco, rice, cotton, mahogany and indigo.

Detailed explanation-3: -Those goods imported to Africa in greatest volume included cloth, iron and copper in raw and worked form, and cowry shells used by local populations as currency. Nonutilitarian items such as jewelry, beads, mechanical toys and curiosities, and alcohol also met a receptive audience.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: European merchants would ship goods like guns, alcohol, textiles, and trinkets to African tribes in exchange for prisoners they had captured from enemy tribes. These prisoners, once sold to Europeans, became slaves on American and Caribbean plantations in the New World.

Detailed explanation-5: -On the first leg, merchants exported goods to Africa in return for enslaved Africans, gold, ivory and spices. The ships then travelled across the Atlantic to the American colonies where the Africans were sold for sugar, tobacco, cotton and other produce.